On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:46:52AM -0600, cygwin wrote: > On 2025-04-01 02:37, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mar 31 23:26, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > > The only question is, assuming as a user I have have man-pages-linux > > and man-pages-freebsd installed. How do I decide on the command line > > which of them I see? > > > $ export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/share/man/man-pages-freebsd
With the advent of the `manpath` utility, this only works when MANPATH is empty. But the next line always works: | $ export MANPATH=:/usr/share/man/man-pages-freebsd Now (contrary to what `man manpath` says :) | $ manpath | manpath: warning: $MANPATH set, prepending /etc/man_db.conf | /usr/share/man:/usr/share/man/man-pages-freebsd manpath prepended man_db.conf because ':' was at the front of MANPATH. If ':' had been at the end, manpath would have appended man_db.conf. If you want man_db.conf somewhere in the middle, put a pair of colons where you want it to go. > > $ alias apropos='apropos -m man,man-pages-freebsd' > $ alias man='man -m man,man-pages-freebsd' No aliases needed if you set the MANPATH. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
